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MuQSS CPU Scheduler 0.155 Released
Con Kolivas has released his latest version of the MuQSS CPU scheduler that succeeds the Brain BFS scheduler...
KDE 4/5 Affected By A Root Exploit Vulnerability
There's a root exploit vulnerability present on both KDE4 and KDE5...
Chrome Gets A GPU Service Scheduler
The Chrome/Chromium web-browser now has a GPU service scheduler...
VK9 Direct3D-Over-Vulkan Begins Hitting More Advanced Milestones
The VK9 hobbyist project implementing Direct3D 9 over the Vulkan graphics API is beginning to reach the more challenging milestones...
X.Org Is Looking For An XDC2018 Host
The X.Org Foundation is looking for interested individuals to offer bids for organizing the 2018 X.Org Developers' Conference...
GIMP 2.8.22 Released, Fixes A 10 Year Old CVE
It's not GIMP 2.10 or the GIMP 3.0 unicorn, but for those wanting the latest-and-greatest GIMP image manipulation program update, v2.8.22 is now available...
GNOME 3.24.2 Released With A Variety Of Fixes
GNOME 3.24.2 is now available as the second and last planned point release to the GNOME 3.24 desktop series until the GNOME 3.26 debut in September...
Valve Puts The Steam Controller & Steam Link Back On Sale
For those that didn't pick up a Steam Controller or Steam Link back during Valve's holiday sales, they are running a Steam Hardware sale the next few days...
Benchmarking The New RadeonSI/Gallium3D Threaded Support
Last night well known AMD Mesa developer Marek Olsak released a new patch series threading Gallium3D's pipe_context and initially is suitable for the RadeonSI driver. Given the performance gains he mentioned in the patch series, I was anxious to try out this new Gallium3D threading capability.
Westfield: Wayland For HTML5/JavaScript
Westfield is a new independent project that provides a Wayland protocol XML parser and generator for JavaScript...
A Big Golang Update Lands In GCC 8.0
Now that GCC 7 was released as stable last week, the GCC trunk/master code-base is back open for merging more feature work with the beginning of the GCC 8 development cycle...
Microsoft .NET Core 2.0 Preview Brings Better Linux Support
Microsoft used its Build 2017 conference for rolling out the first public preview of .NET Core 2.0...
NVIDIA Details CUDA 9 Features, Allows C++14 In Device Code
NVIDIA at their annual GPU Technology Conference (GTC'17) have provided more public details about the forthcoming CUDA 9 compute update...
Kbuild Updates For Linux 4.12 Brings Some LLVM/Clang Improvements
The kbuild updates for the Linux kernel aren't usually noteworthy but at least this time does bring a few LLVM/Clang related changes...
OpenShot 2.3.2 Video Editor Released
A new point release of the OpenShot video editor is now available for those satisfied with this open-source non-linear video editing solution...
Marek Threads RadeonSI Gallium3D, Big Performance Gains For Many Games
Not to be confused with the recently-landed OpenGL threaded dispatch support that recently landed in Mesa Git, Marek Olšák has now published a set of patches for threading Gallium3D for RadeonSI: moving the execution of all Gallium3D pipe_context calls into a separate CPU thread...
Raven Ridge, VCN Decode Support Patches Posted For Gallium3D
Following the 117 patches adding 314k lines of code to AMDGPU for enabling the next-generation "Raven Ridge" Zen+Vega APU within the AMDGPU DRM driver, Raven support patches have emerged for the RadeonSI driver, including support for the new VCN video block...
Artanis: GNU Gets Into Web Application Frameworks, Written In Guile Scheme
Artanis 0.2 has been released, a newer GNU project that's a web application framework written in Guile Scheme...
NVIDIA Announces Volta-based Tesla V100 Accelerator
NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang used the company's GPU Technology Conference to today announce the Volta V100 accelerator for data centers and HPC workloads...
AMD Posts Initial Patches For Raven APU Support: 117 Patches, 314k L.O.C.
Alex Deucher of AMD has posted the initial AMDGPU DRM/KMS kernel driver patches for bringing up graphics on the next-generation "Raven" APUs...
Two More Device IDs Added For Radeon Vega 10
Patches came out today expanding the Vega 10 family with the open-source Linux graphics driver stack...
NetworkManager 1.8 Released
NetworkManager 1.8 is now available as the latest version of this widely-used network management component to Linux systems...
Mesa 17.1 Released, Adds RADV Vulkan Conforming Patches
Mesa 17.1.0 is now officially available as the Q2'2017 update to this important piece to the open-source 3D Linux graphics driver stack...
GeForce Experience Picks Up OpenGL/Vulkan Support, Linux Up Next?
NVIDIA's gaming software, GeForce Experience, now has support for OpenGL and Vulkan...
TEE Proposed For Merging In Linux 4.12: "Trusted" Execution Environment
The ARM folks have requested that the TEE subsystem and OP-TEE drivers be included in Linux 4.12, the Trusted Execution Environment...
Better Driver Matching For X.Org Server 1.20
A two-year-old patch for the X.Org Server from a NVIDIA developer has finally landed...
More Power Management Updates Head To The Linux 4.12 Kernel
Last week was the main ACPI / power management updates for Linux 4.12 while Intel's Rafael Wysocki has now submitted a second set of feature updates for this next version of the Linux kernel...
Git 2.13 Released, Adds SHA-1 Collision Detection
Git 2.13 is now available as the latest version of this widely-used, open-source version control system...
GPUOpen's CodeXL 2.3 Brings Ryzen Support, AMDGPU-PRO Compatibility
AMD's CodeXL utility that's open-source under the GPUOpen umbrella for graphics profiling/debugging is up to version 2.3...
Btrfs Gets RAID 5/6 Fixes With Linux 4.12
There are a number of Btrfs fixes/clean-ups for the Linux 4.12 kernel...
NVIDIA 381.22 Linux Driver Released With Updated Vulkan
NVIDIA has released a new short-lived Linux binary driver update that jumps it ahead to the 381 release series...
NVIDIA Tegra186/Parker/TX2 Support For Linux 4.12
Olof Johansson has sent in his large set of pull requests for the ARM SoC/platform updates slated for the in-development Linux 4.12 kernel...
CodeAurora Continues Contributions To Freedreno's MSM DRM Driver
While there are still a few days left until the Linux 4.12 merge window closes and the 4.12 release candidates for the next two months, the Qualcomm-backed CodeAurora already has lined up some new code for the reverse-engineered, community-driven Freedreno MSM DRM driver for Adreno hardware...
Qt 5.9 To Be An LTS Release, Qt 6 Planning On Radar
Lars Knoll has made some interesting remarks regarding the future of Qt 5 as well as Qt 6...
Cockpit Comes To Ubuntu, Easier Linux Server Administration
Cockpit, the open-source project providing a pleasant web-based administrative interface to Linux systems and developed significantly by Red Hat / Fedora developers, is now officially available in Ubuntu and Debian...
GCC 6/7 Gets A Performance-Sensitive Fix
A Phoronix reader pointed out a performance regression fix now available for GCC 6 and GCC 7 that could help some rather trivial C code perform much better...
Qt Creator 4.3 RC1 Now Available For Developers
The first release candidate for the upcoming Qt Creator 4.3 integrated development environment (IDE) Is now available for testing...
IOMMU Updates, Optimizations For Linux 4.12
There are a number of IOMMU optimizations queued for Linux 4.12...
MINIX 3.4 RC6 Released
The release of MINIX 3.4 is inching closer with the availability now of its sixth release candidate...
SteamVR Dashboard On Linux Now Supports Desktop View
Valve continues maturing their SteamVR Linux support...
Coreboot 4.6 Released
Coreboot 4.6 has been released as the project's first official release of 2017...
F2FS Is Ready With Various Enhancements For Linux 4.12
The latest Linux 4.12 merge window pull request worth talking about is that of the Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) updates...
NVIDIA Video Codec SDK 8.0 Released, Supports 10/12-bit Decoding With HEVC/VP9
This week is NVIDIA's GPU Technology Conference (GTC) where the graphics giant will be unveiling a number of software updates and more...
A Variety Of KVM Changes For Linux 4.12, Supports MIPS Hardware Virtualization
The Kernel-based Virtual Machine changes have been submitted for the Linux 4.12 kernel merge window...
Linux 4.12 I/O Scheduler Benchmarks: BFQ, Kyber, Etc
Among the many new features for Linux 4.12 are two new I/O schedulers in mainline: the long-standing BFQ (Budget Fair Queueing) and Kyber, a new I/O scheduler developed at Facebook. Here are some initial benchmarks of these I/O schedulers on the Linux Git code as of this past week.
Falcon: A New, Faster JIT Compiler For Java/JVM
Last week Azul Systems released a new version of its Zing runtime for Java. With the new version of Zing comes a new JIT compiler dubbed "Falcon" for offering faster Java performance...
Mesa 17.1 RC4 Released, Fixes Polaris 12 Support
Emil Velikov has announced the Mesa 17.1-rc4 test release and plans to officially release Mesa 17.1 tomorrow if no further issues come about...
EXT4 For Linux 4.12 Gets GETFSMAP Support, Performance Improvements
Ted Ts'o has sent in the EXT4 file-system updates targeting the Linux 4.12 kernel merge window...
Radeon RX 550: AMDGPU-PRO vs. DRM-Next + Mesa 17.2-dev
Earlier this week I posted a number of Radeon RX 550 Linux benchmarks making use of AMD's popular open-source driver stack. For those wondering how the open-source driver compares to the AMDGPU-PRO hybrid proprietary driver for this sub-$100 Polaris GPU, these benchmarks will interest you.
The New Features So Far For The Linux 4.12 Kernel
We are through week one of two for the Linux 4.12 kernel merge window. It's been a busy first week of 4.12, so for your viewing pleasure this weekend is a recap of some of the changes that landed over the past seven days...
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